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One of the 'tricks' Dave Brubeck was famous for was playing in different time signatures and sometimes in different keys in the left and right hands, yet making it all sound beautiful. I read a story that he was playing an outdoor concert once when a plane flew overhead. All of a sudden, you could hear the melody from "Leaving on a Jet Plane" coming out of the piano while they were still playing the original song .
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Btw: I learned a new adjective/verb? "flabbergast"
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Sometimes I Need to communicate in French and even French is very common here (Swizerland) I have then and when some problems. And even more, it is a Long time since I learned French in School. So please help me if possible.
Is "voici" the right word/abbreviation for "ici est"? Does "ici est" even exists or is it a no go?
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What about "ici sont"
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Sorry and thank you in advance
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Thank you for this.
don't think there are many French frequenting CodeProject
There are, at least @ppolymorphe, @Munchies_Matt and I think some others
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Quote: There are, at least @ppolymorphe, @Munchies_Matt and I think some others That's what they made you believe, but in reality they are Russian trolls
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Ahh ok. I will Report them immediately
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No, no - they are Russian Dolls: Matryoshka.
Inside each one is a lower rep member.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But it is a small step from Doll to Troll
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OriginalGriff wrote: Inside each one is a lower rep member.
Definitely true for munchies_matt given his previous incarnation as fat_boy.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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I am actually English.
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While "voici" translates to "here is" (or "here are"), as a native French speaker, I've never heard anyone actually use "ici est" or "ici sont" (the plural form). It's just bad sentence structure. They're not quite interchangeable. I wouldn't say "voici" is an abbreviation of, or a contraction for, "ici est" or "ici sont". I'd call "voici" a better word to use where you'd otherwise try to use "ici est" or "ici sont". There's no concern for singular or plural with "voici".
While I can give examples, I can't provide the "why". I don't have a background in that sort of thing. It just is.
(I'm skipping the accents in the following - call me lazy; I don't have the keyboard mapping)
"Voici les faits" = "here are the facts". You wouldn't say however "ici sont les faits".
"Voici la verite" = "here is the truth". Again, you wouldn't say "ici est la verite".
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thank you so much!
But help me please again to make sure I'm on the right path...
"Voici" is valid/the same for singular and plural?
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Just read your answer again, and I think "voici" seems to be valid for both, singular/plural
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That clears things up, but now I'm wondering what the difference is between voila and voici ?
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Voila: So it is!
Voici: It is like...
Not sure
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There is no real syntactic difference between "voici" and "voilà". Both may be used to introduce the presentation of something. When a single of them is used, they have the same meaning. In a sentence where you would need to present two disting things, they are often used to denote the distinction.
Example: "Voici Eric, et voilà son frère Marc." => "Here's Eric, and there his brother Marc."
There are two other words which act the same way: "ici" et "là", which can be (roughly) translated to "here" and "there". "Ici se trouve Big Ben, et là la Tamise." => "Here is Big Ben, and there the Thames."
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I have enough Problems to express me correclty in german. Here at CP I should "parler en anglais" and now this!!!
I think I will go on with Java
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phil.o is correct. "voici" and "voila" are akin to "here is" and "there is".
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Reading your answer again and again I like to give you at 1K Points, but I can not. Once again thank you very much for your excellent answer!
Bruno
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I'm a native French speaker (French Canadian), and have always had good grades in French while in school. While I have a bit of a knack for spotting common mistakes, I find I rather suck at explaining why they're mistakes as I have no ability to explain grammatical rules such as they exist. I think like a software developer, and I would have a very hard time coming up with any sort of algorithm to do anything with sorting out proper grammar--I wouldn't know where to begin.
So...I'm glad I was of help.
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I understand your situation completely. I am a native English speaker from England (although now living in the colonies (US)) and have always prided myself on my correct English grammar, spelling and pronunciation. I am usually sought as the source of correct answers in my office and amongst my friends whenever a dispute on "correct English" comes up.
However, why exactly what I say is correct I can never explain using all those "future perfect, pluperfect, etc." words I might once have learned in school (many, many decades ago)- it just is, and somehow I know it, and everyone also accepts it once I state it is so - so it must be!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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